Telling the references from a complete pill forging technique—using an analogy—was like creating a solution of water from numerous wells and demanding for another to identify the origin of the water. It was an impossible task!
Unless one witnessed him creating the pill forging technique step by step, it would be impossible to identify three references. The difficulty of the task Cheng Jiang proposed, compared to simply finding the flaws in a pill forging technique, was at least five times harder!
Zhang Xuan's eyes narrowed.
As expected of the apothecaries, they weren't as easy to deal with as he expected.
This fellow might be a bundle of smiles and look magnanimous. However, he was truly the most shameless of the group.
